ABSTRACT
“Earthen blocks to build a future” is a social insertion project focused on the construction of a public library in Raval de Sant Roc, a slum area in the city of Algemesí (Spain), through the development of participatory activities with the local community. This initiative included the organization of two CEB production workshops, the first one aimed at volunteers and the second aimed at youths in risk of social exclusion. The project also considered the subsequent contracting of the latter to manufacture the blocks with which the new library for their community will be built. This article gathers the results of this experience and offers some considerations about the characteristics that make the CEB a material of a great interest for the construction of collective buildings in disadvantaged communities.
